the prime minister visits. the country. building in the capital. as a private security firm proving competent u.s. agents being flown into the post. banking giant h.s.b.c. tied to terrorist cash reports the money laundering helped saudi arabian groups.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here in moscow. international divisions on how to curb the syrian conflict the prime minister of neighboring turkey arrives right here in the russian capital for talks moscow and opposing views on how to resolve the crisis would choose very much reflected in the u.n. which. just what to do. prime minister erdogan is meeting with russian president vladimir putin to discuss syria the two countries are allies but this is one area where the two countries disagree turkey they're calling for assad to step down and for regime change syria has said that turkey has become a hotbed of terrorism and of course tensions have not been great between the country since june twenty second where syria shot down a turkish airplane now russia's stance on the situation is that they are wanting to

promote dialogue they are opposed to sanctions of any kind against syria and they also don't want any kind of foreign military intervention and this might be one of the reasons why earth began is here today to try and make one last ditch attempt to sway russia to the side of the international community in one of the sections of the security council resolution that is on the table is a clause that allows for military intervention as a last resort this is something that russia strongly opposes kofi annan was here this week wrapping up a two day visit his second trip to the country on the topic of syria so russia a hot bed of diplomacy a central hub for talks on the subject but right now that main sticking point is russia does not want to see boots on the ground or foreign military intervention in syria. reporting right there one of the latest we have now is a serious state t.v. is reporting that a suicide attack has targeted

a security building in the capital damascus or right now no immediate reports of any casualties but the incident comes amid reports of continued fighting around the city but syrian officials have dismissed a claim to the rebels of going to a major offensive in damascus state media said security forces have repelled attacks from terrorist groups in the capital well global affairs research of benjamin believes the syrian opposition is a using the fear it spread in damascus to pressure foreign allies military intervention. this in to infiltrate. capital in order to cause chaos. fear and population and to do otherwise. the capital which has been relatively quiet despite some terrible suicide bombing so far. this ongoing chaos a little bit of youth western powers i was you know my fortunately it through

through. pressuring russia and china going on. pressuring i started to maybe even start in the military intervention. that was a global affairs researcher benjamin chater talking to us a bit earlier from canada. now with security failing in the upcoming london olympics the u.s. is taking matters into its own hands washington is sending in its own agents after the shamed private security firm g four s. didn't train enough staff i mean what the latest poll shows almost half of britons feel their country is poorly prepared for the games this report two artes laurus math. as athletes and guests start to arrive here at heathrow airport for london's olympic games they'll be met by all the usual sites including loans that immigration as u.k. border officials struggle to cope with the sheer numbers involved but it won't be just a u.k. official felt come across some may be surprised to see american agents operating on

british soil the u.s. transport administration or for a city has reportedly been allowed to bring in agents in a move aimed at helping british authorities to secure american flights in and out of the u.k. the agents apparently won't be allowed past boarding gates or on to u.k. aircraft but them if presidents could prove controversial in the u.s. they've been accused of performing intrusive pat down it's just the latest confession that britain's been forced to make to the u.s. which doesn't believe the olympic host has done enough to ensure the security of the games the american team will reportedly bring with it five hundred f.b.i. agents to protect its athletes and diplomats plus a further five hundred security stars all of whom will be operating on british soil raising questions about sober and. american on the follows

a catalogue of failures on behalf of the security company that won the contract for the games g four s. earlier its admitted it couldn't provide the number of security staff it had promised that meant that three and a half thousand soldiers and hundreds of police have had to be drafted in at the very last minute to plug the story told. the truth or smith reporting america is helping great britain to secure its borders back home its people's a financial security that's under threat but why the american dream is fading away with other countries overtaking what was once the leader of so-called. mobility. plus with a parliamentary election in georgia drawing closer we lift the lid on the tactics being used to prevent new faces from coming to power. this is r.t. israel's facing fresh political turmoil after the largest party in the country's

parliament. quit the coalition government of prime minister benjamin netanyahu but disagreement was over the drafting of ultra-orthodox jews to the army and comes at a rather sensitive time for the israeli government this explanation is to. at the current moment the status quo is such that religious jews do not serve in the idea of compared to the majority of secular israelis who serve at least two to three years now when the kadima party joined the netanyahu government a little more than two months ago it's running paul at the time was that it was going to put an end to this exemption that the two sides have failed to reach agreement over the drafting of new legislation it could trigger the withdrawal of other political parties it makes in this one yahoo that much more vulnerable to pressure from the far right wing political groupings and the religious parties and at the same time it also no longer allows him to claim that he presides over

a government of national unity because he certainly doesn't it is making him that much more weak at both domestically and internationally and it comes at a time when israel is trying to deal with its worsening public image in light of a number of issues not least of all the social protest this past weekend that saw an israeli city himself on fire and this has provoked anger and frustration throughout the country certainly also in the international community there is the possibility that the government might have to go for early elections the question being asked is why did not only are not foreseen this development and if indeed he did why did he choose to ignore it because it comes at such a vulnerable time it comes at a time when the country is having to deal with very unstable neighbors who are going through their own political app evil and also with the whole question of the rand the question of whether or not israel will strike you round is still very much

looming over the reputation of the sky vermont policy our team tel aviv. for more on the divisions plaguing israel just go to our website. the new iraq. around the country it's almost complete with up to twenty nations. right there in the persian gulf. growing in. hope for a cure. the result could be much. as well at all web site also well the best videos we have for you. that. is.

the official. video. just turning ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital so the u.k. banking scandal deepens and london based h.s.b.c. stands accused of allowing money to flow to terrorists and u.s. government reporters accuse h.s.b.c.

of drug cartels ignoring. helping saudi arabian organizations finance terrorism. middle east affairs expert who says people simply will not stand for this. i think this proves what many people have said all along that it is saudi arabia which is the main export are of radical of this religious extremism of the radical elements and i think how they handle it just it just explains what underwater guys under what guys we're talking about what sort of terrorist groups are we talking about here while we're talking about you know for example the extremism those people who are now are for example of causing violence in syria but those who were sent to chechnya are the pay people of groups it was pakistan even our car there as well we have to have to say here that some elements of the royal firmly who also have their own facts on fluted as well to our car either but more

importantly i think that this report. that sheds light on the. alliance between the saudi family the saudi royal family and some western countries what this will do is a will put more pressure on the western governments to try and change their policy here now of course saudi arabia is considered to be an ally for how long could this continue and many people are speculating that maybe the western governments might reconsider might soon reconsider their alliance and why. it was all you're right would they be doing that first of all because we have the uprisings currently happening which puts more pressure on the on the u.s. government on the british government the saudi arabia until now hasn't taken any steps towards political reform and the other reason is that saudi arabia when it becomes more known that saudi arabia is the main source of this extremism that will lead to a popular vigilance for example in the u.s.

in countries like britain by believe that this report and more similar developments would put more pressure on the on the u.s. and all of these western countries. well others gondola surrounding h.s.b.c. marina has sent us some of its stocks into a nosedive designed a standard that's correct we were in fact in hong kong and sat over at super sense when it comes to the u.k. there it's dropping over one and a half percent this is not something that encourages investors by all means and in fact we did hear that at the london based executive all of his we see who is in charge of compliance will step down and this might help the stock recover ever so slightly so we'll of course been monitoring that and i'll bring you all the latest on the european markets in about seven minutes from now. we will be seeing marina shortly for now though it was once known as the land of opportunity but you could literally turn ranks to riches but today's economic hardships have brought the american dream grinding to a halt and leaving many people with little chance of making

a decent living with more on this is arteries more important. they are likely story that is. there has never been anything. about help. hope has always been central to the national myth known as the american dream problem is today's harsh reality of economic inequality leaves the promised land offering less opportunity for a better life depending on who you are and what your objectives are and what your resources are america may not be the best choice anymore according to reports germany canada and the scandinavian countries all have better social mobility than the us this means citizens living in those nations have a greater chance of increasing their income and status through hard work everyone in the countries you mention have systems that are focused on giving people maximum opportunity education mostly free in those societies medical care generally

available and free childcare generally available and free when you add up all those conditions you're facilitating every person's ability to find a career to get an education to get the skilled training that will allow them to do better than they are in their parents' generation america's current landscape is a bit different for the first time since the great depression american men are earning less than their fathers did. and i'm more than fifty percent of recent us college graduates are unemployed or working low wage jobs this as the an affordable cost of higher education in america has produced a national student debt bubble topping one trillion dollars teachers meanwhile are among the seven hundred thousand federal and state public workers who have reportedly been laid off since the crisis hit the u.s. a country where sixteen million are reported to be without full time jobs and

approximately fifty million people are living without medical insurance now we've reached a point where the middle class is shrinking. and sighs and what is growing is the distinction between the people who have the american dream the people who don't and the people who will never get it as millions of americans are sliding down the economic ladder median household income has it moved up in more than a decade americans are making less now than when bill clinton was in the white house while the top one percent have nearly tripled their fortune since the eighty's we have a. deeper pool of poor people than ever before and unlike before experts say it's more likely that more americans will remain in familiar waters we're not growing we haven't grown in this economy in a significant way for almost six or seven years now and so there isn't the expansion in the company that means we need to hire forty more people we don't have

that we're laying off everywhere we're cutting back everywhere. also being slashed is the muscle behind america's libor force over the decades the number of u.s. unions has declined those left standing are being stripped of bargaining rights and existing benefits the elevator for people at the bottom to get up and out were trade unions and once america went on the warpath against trade unions and the realization of a kind of went along with it that that blocked the paths for low income people to get decent jobs i stagnate reality american dreamers are now forced to reckon with marina point nine r.t. new york. already just a moment libya first though afghanistan to crank up the ante welled up day for us now it's been almost two dozen nato supply trucks have been destroyed in a bomb attack a device a planted on a fuel tank detonated engulfing the others nearby and the vehicles were

transporting fuel into the country from neighboring uzbekistan it comes off to pakistan lifted a blockade on name. supply routes into afghanistan in a move that ultimately provoked all across the country. the final results in libya's election have been confirmed an islamic coalition led by it was time prime minister mahmoud jibril has won thirty nine out of eighty seats available the muslim brotherhood just gaining seventeen now while the west sees the election as broadly liberal journalist patrick hayes believes there's not much for the libyan people to celebrate. work knots for nato intervention last year i think these elections should really have been something to celebrate the election itself has been administered by the national transitional council which was effectively cherry picked by the west rather than then actually selected by the libyan people it's an unelected body and there have been a lot of disagreements has been a lot of protests over the past nine ten months by the libyan people who are

unhappy with the lack of transparency from this government's their own happy with the fact that the transitional council does not represent their views or the people that they want to be in power. you can hear more from patrick just about ten or eleven minutes time from now. but a pall of major elections in georgia may be several months away but the government and their opponents are gearing up for the fight police have arrested three opposition activists for allegedly violating party funding laws because arteries are really going to school reports claims the government's using underhand methods in order to cling on to power. where was my friends who were kidnapped by the by georgia imposed by the kind of groups which we accompanied by georgian polish like many of the outspoken critics of the regime of president saakashvili is used to

this kind of treatment but now as parliamentary elections draw closer the authorities are trying to derail any opposition momentum on top of the tried and trusted methods of shutting down the opposition where there are three things but it is a really seems to have switched his attention to their wallets now all the donors are subjected to thorough investigations and the recent parties themselves are usually slapped with have to find a new law imposed earlier this year bans corporate donors and puts a rigid cap on donations made by individuals coincidentally it came into effect shortly after georgia's wealthiest businessmen billionaire businessman she really founded his own political party georgian dream. after even if she only became the new face of the georgia opposition really became seriously worried and began hampering our efforts the first history of the big even issuing of his georgian citizenship well and is now trying to take away his business under this new law

even his release party has already been fined more than a million dollars for allegedly receiving only go to nations opposition parties with smaller budgets aren't overlooked by the government either party was also find you know by two hundred the use door two hundred dollars and the u.s. dollar and it's a huge amount for a. budget of two months so this fire show. means that real opposition parties are prohibitive in georgia cutting cash flow appears to be the latest weapon in. that with the opposition and with only three months before the elections it seems the playing field is becoming increasingly on . in tbilisi georgia if you. are let's join the lovely marina stunned by the business. today on the program we've touched down on various aspects of the u.s.

economy any uplifting news you can should have before us you're used to me by now don't have any uplifting news only negative mixed at best say that basically that's what we have today it's earnings reports season and we see in a mixed picture from europe coming out this time of course when it comes to us we have the comments made by us federal reserve chairman ben bernanke quite pessimistic there he gave a grim outlook on the u.s. economy and also said that the reduction in the rate will be really slow but wall street is not trading right now let's take a look at europe and see how the figures are looking there and of course investors are also responding to what happened on wall street where we saw gains and we're seeing gains in europe as well but as you can see there are minimal and it's. negative territory by next hour they always go for the exits here and i'm always wrong when it comes to your bubble see about basically we see that the foot seems adam just north similarly with the german dax now the move on to russia will see that it's a similar picture here although my six has now already slipped into negative

territory as you can see there still hanging on point four percent and of course a big run in food prices are not helping russian investors either we'll take a look at those in a second but first a second look at the main movers on the mindsets the blue chips naturally his bank is still adding the south point three two percent the only one and we know that the company the bank is now in the ranks seventh in the list of the world's biggest lenders have its allies say now one of these and just and also known as we might see changes in the top level management quite soon and when it comes to gas from nafta i know that it's going to expand into all pena and i just to give you some more details on the plans to take part in the privatization of local crude. which is currently. estimated at around half a billion dollars but analysts do said that the acquisition could be risky the albanian company does not publicize its financial reports and most of its all of the calls it's actually hard to develop while staying with a well let's take

a look at the latest food prices there are now declining from a seven the reply as you can see the lights citing close to eighty nine dollars about the prime blend slowly approaching one hundred four dollars per barrel and that's and that signals that bhutan is economy is weakening and also of course it will know that there's been concerns over the years on that prices and how it's has played in that if the want to take a look at currencies a different picture for the russian ruble this hour it's going against both major currencies when it comes through the euro it's still retreating against the u.s. dollar in fact it's now i'd seen your loans against the greenback and the common currency was of course hit hard by the euro zone that covers you can see there on the graph the progress and of course the concerns of what the needs are all being and now the latest reports of one of the main foreign experience i can later cite saxo bank says you have to look forward to our part in helping to stabilize the situation and now it's nice tom parts of this decision over the head of the banks that strategy john harvey let's have less of what they have to say. the only way

the year is going to stay together two things need to happen first dream is to become more involved before we can be more generous that is going to be so far in the equation and as well we need to see a restructuring of the debt is too much the periphery we can't keep the state a lot in the current solutions that germany is offering saving austerity that is not the way a solution there's no way to save our way and solution that requires that somebody takes a loss and the debt is written off to a certain extent to allow it to be sustainable if you're talking to the electorate and baby want to hear from bankers too they don't just want a church do you say to them. point the system you've been badly mistreated by bankers. by people like yourself or do you turn around and say to them you have to shut up now stop protesting all have to realize as a society that it's not about throwing one party out and bringing another party and it's about realizing this loss has to be taking your pension it's not worth as much

as you think it is because some of this needs to be written down so that realization is an important step towards towards real change towards a restructuring taking a loss realizing that the upfront pain is actually better because it creates a sustainable system going so painful reform is now a needed and the past has to be gone through there's no way to escape it although it may be too late to go on exactly unfortunately the longer it goes on the bigger the system or the pilot builds up so it becomes more painful in the long run it's better to take the hit now rather than later in the e.u. is going to be the first place to take the hit because of its fragile political fiscal framework. that borders on hard i was saying of course easier said than done rory people are saying that what if they take a hit now then it becomes even wars that's what we're seeing all the protests because we don't know what i will need so and how bad the situation will become and where all this will escalate and out of the e.u.

but i think that one economist also of course where we're going but the pensioners there when their pensions are being cut they have no guarantee for the future so of course they don't want this to happen they realized might be better but you know tough gig yeah yeah. that's what i have for here this hour all right many thanks to you next hour. by just a moment here we'll get to the headlines i will be backed up by the latest interview a story that of course an islamic coalition sweeps the elections in libya we discussed the forecast for the country are still entrenched and continued about of our people so you're just.

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